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- Researching global, national and local adult education policies and actorsPublication . Mikulec, Borut; Bussi, Margherita; Barros, RosannaToday’s global phenomena, such as climate change, health and biodiversity threats, and environmental degradation, intertwine with new and long-standing societal challenges. These include migration movements, conflicts, wars, hate crimes, as well as the deepening of old inequalities (e.g. class, gender, age, ethnic identities, among others) (Benavot et al., 2022), and new social and economic cleavages, such as the digital or energy divide. These trends have deepened the complexity of inequality both within communities and between the Global North and the Global South (Stanistreet et al., 2021). Moreover, the technologisation of societies through the fast-growing power of artificial intelligence, as well as ill-working labour markets and outdated welfare models exerts additional pressure on policy-makers in democratic contexts. This pressure contributes to shaping policy agendas while providing room for populist and right-wing actors to raise their voices and gain political power, with potential long-lasting effects of social policies, including adult education policies.
- Impression management, government agencies' regulation and analyst forecasts: empirical evidence from an emerging marketPublication . Castro, Lívia Arruda; Ponte, Vera; Viana Junior, Dante Baiardo C.Purpose- This study aims to investigate the relationship between government agencies' regulation and analyst forecasts in an emerging market and whether this relationship is mediated by impression management in earnings press releases.Design/methodology/approachThe sample consists of 1,816 quarterly observations of Brazilian listed firms from 2003 to 2021, based on data from Thomson Reuters (R). The impression management of the sample firms is obtained by analyzing their earnings releases using the Watson Natural Language Understanding (NLU) platform developed by IBM (R). We employ a manual firm-level classification procedure to detect regulated and non-regulated firms by government agencies.FindingsBased on structural equation modeling, the findings suggest that firms regulated by government agencies present, on average, lower levels of impression management in earnings press releases. Additionally, we find that the level of firms' impression management, in turn, is negatively related to analyst forecast errors. These empirical results indicate that impression management in earnings press releases is a crucial mediating channel between government agencies' regulation and analyst forecast errors. Moreover, we find that government agencies' regulation has a positive and direct effect on analyst forecast errors, possibly due to its impact on other firm-level incentives and market dynamics, which may be positively or negatively associated with analyst forecasts.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the previous literature on the relationship between government agencies' regulation and analyst forecasts by theoretically discussing and empirically analyzing the mediating role of impression management as an important factor in this relationship, exploring the various facets through which state regulation ends up changing the structure of the informational environment in which companies are located. An important debate for the emerging markets literature is also provided, and policy discussions are featured.
- Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in AfricaPublication . Cerezo-Román, Jessica I.; Sawchuk, Elizabeth; Schilt, Flora Cecilia; Bertacchi, Alex; Buckley, Gina; Chibisa, Edwin; Fahey, B. Patrick; Falchenberg, Sofia Gunilla Hedman; Kaliba, Potiphar; Kennett, Douglas J.; Mercader, Julio; Pargeter, Justin; Stock, Jay; Szymanski, Ryan; Thompson, Jessica C.Human cremation on an open pyre demands intensive labor, communal resources, and sensory exposures. We report the earliest evidence for intentional cremation in Africa, the oldest in situ adult pyre in the world, and one of only a few associated with hunter-gatherers. A large cremation feature at Hora 1 in Malawi dates to similar to 9500 years ago and contains the remains of a small, gracile adult with evidence for perimortem defleshing and postcremation manipulation. Subsequent revisiting of the site to build fires in the same place provided additional pyrotechnological spectacles. High-resolution, multiproxy reconstruction of the ritual associated with cremation and its subsequent deposition demonstrates complex mortuary practices among ancient African foraging groups with substantial social investment and use of natural landscape features as persistent mortuary monuments.